Single best ECE site (followed by things in the FML archives and the FHL back-posts): http://www.afip.org/ferrets/ECE/ECE.html . Anything that speeds up the passage of stools will cause them to appear green. Anything that interferes with digestion in the small intestine (or providing of more fat than ferret can digest) will cause seedy stools. Had a lot of basic health questions being sent again, but am short on time, so, PLEASE, folks, SAVE these (***Those who have saved will want to add the Bradley Hills and vetheart addies to their files.***) Health related sites: http://www.vetheart.com/ http://www.trifl.org/cedar.html http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.ferret.net/medical/ http://www.trifl.org/medical.html http://home.att.net/~hhoefer/ http://www.lbah.com/Ferrets/insulinoma.htm http://www.ferretcentral.org http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/adv-straight.html http://www.napcc.aspca.org/ http://advancedhelp.org http://www.ferret.org/index.htm http://www.avecon.com/AveconADV.htm http://www.hiproanimalhealth.com/catalog/usa/index.htm http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/ http://www.peteducation.com/drugs_supplements.htm http://www.marvistavet.com/html/pharmacy_center.html http://www.bradleyhills.com/ http://www.petinsurance.com/ Have also run into several folks who are confused about seasonal shedding and seasonal fur re-growth. Autumn and Spring BOTH are times when fur in shed and fur is regrown naturally (and sometimes other times of year can be if artificial lights and too few ways to get into total darkness cause hormonal confusion for our dark-adapted critters). From observing here at home the times when this happens can vary by several weeks among individuals. At 4:03 AM -0500 11/8/01, Automatic digest processor wrote: >This is what I also suspect. I now keep my cages covered. I'll let you >know if it seems to work in 4-6 years when we see what happens with my two >young girls! We have not personally seen a difference in the rates of benign adrenal growths with covers (but we also are not a large enough sample to tell); however, we have not had any adrenal malignancies since we began using covers (again, same qualifier attached). It's easy, doesn't hurt and may help, so... [Posted in FML issue 3598]
